Concordia St. Paul scored four first half goals to defeat the University
of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Golden Eagles 5-0 in a Northern Sun
Conference match this afternoon in Crookston.

Concordia-St. Paul wasted little time as Sara Sather scored just 5:12
into the contest to give the the Golden Bears a 1-0 lead. The Bears
senior, Hillary Johnson put on a show scoring the next four goals
including an unassisted goal and one off a penalty kick.
UMC's Leyla Castillo (Fresh-Miami, Fla.) and Anna Ogaard (Fresh-Maple
Grove) combined for five saves for the Golden Eagles, who are now 4-10-0
overall and 2-2-0 in the NSIC. Concordia-St. Paul improve to 3-9-2
overall and 1-2-0 in the NSIC. The Golden Eagles will host
Bemidji
State
University
next Sunday.

UPPER IOWA PICKS OFF UMC 50-21 TO SPOIL HOMECOMINGThe Upper Iowa Peacocks used six interceptions, four by
Dominique Jackson, including a 100 yard interception return for a
touchdown to defeat the UMC Golden Eagles 50-21 in a Northern Sun
Conference game in Crookston.Upper Iowa had an impressive opening possession, driving 87
yards on 12 plays and using over six minutes of the clock, and Kevin
Linnell threw a 21 yard strike to wide-out Aaron McFarland to give the
Peacocks an early 7-0 win against the University of Minnesota, Crookston
(UMC) Golden Eagles.
UMC had their best drive of the first half going late in the first
quarter, getting deep into Upper Iowa territory, but penalties took them
out of range and forced the Golden Eagles into a punt, which pinned the
Peacocks at their 16 yard line. Upper Iowa's offense would have
another ball control drive, moving it 84 yards on seven plays, which a
couple big runs, including one for over 35 yards by T.C. Hicks to set up
Linnell for another touchdown passing play, this time an 18 yard play
action pass to Kyle Hosch to make it 13-0 early into the second quarter.
In a big turn of events late in the second quarter, the Golden Eagles
marched the ball down the field, with Josh Kreutner (Sr-Revillo, S.D.)
throwing a touchdown pass, but it was called back because of a UMC
holding penalty. Kreutner would try another pass in the end zone, but
this time it was picked off by Dominique Jackson, his second of the
half, at the UMC goal line and Jackson raced 100 yards for another
Peacock score to put Upper Iowa up 20-0, with just over four minutes to
go in the first half. "You are not going to win many games turning
the ball over like we did," said UMC head coach Shannon Stassen,
"It was a double edge thing for us. We get a touchdown called back
on a penalty and they come right back and score. It takes the starch out
of you."
Despite the disappointment of the interception and trailing by 20
points, UMC's offense didn't flinch as Kreutner continued to look
impressive in his first start since the opening game of the season, and
the senior found 6'6 wide receiver, Jake Freeman (Jr-Cambridge), who
showed good vertical snagging a 20 yard pass to put the Golden Eagles on
the scoreboard with just over two minutes to go in the first half.
The two teams exchanged interceptions in the last minute of the first
half, and Kreutner has been picked off three times in the first 30
minutes.
The second half, the Peacocks leading rusher, T. C. Hicks was used as
the workhorse on a drive, which he finished off with a 28 yard run and
Upper Iowa opened up a 27-7 lead. UMC, as they have the entire game,
came right back with a 60 yard drive, and Kreutner, who led the Golden
Eagles in rushing, threw his second touchdown pass of the game, when he
hit running back, Eric John (Soph-North Miami, Fla) on a crossing
pattern in the end zone to close Upper Iowa's lead 27-14.
The UMC Golden Eagles defense continued to have trouble containing the
Peacocks running back Hicks, as he busted off a 54 yard run to set up
another Upper Iowa score, as quarterback Linnell went in from the one
foot line to give Upper Iowa a 34-14 lead early in the fourth quarter.
The UMC quarterback, Kreutner would take things upon himself in the next
series, as the senior continued to have his biggest offensive game of
his career, amassing near 400 yards of total offense, spearheading a 60
drive, where he carried seven times and finished it off with a two yard
run to pull the Golden Eagles within 12 points with 10 minutes to go in
the game. UMC's defense would proceed to stop Upper Iowa and force them
into a punt, but UMC was unable to move the ball on the next possession
and were forced to punt deep in their own zone, and Upper Iowa would
have the ball at the Golden Eagles 30 yard line with just over five
minutes to go in the game. On the first play, Hicks found an open seam
and raced for the 30 yard score and the Peacocks put it away.
UMC's Kreutner had to leave the game with an injury, which appeared to
be the same shoulder that he injured in the first game of the season,
and it was learned after the game Kreutner will be out the rest of the
year. The Golden Eagles David White (Jr-Detroit) entered the game and on
his first pass, it was picked off by Jackson, for his third interception
of the game and almost returned it for his second score, but was pushed
out of bounds at the UMC two yard line. On the next UMC possession,
Upper Iowa would pick off another White pass, the Peacocks fifth
interception, and Travis Grace scored from nine yards out to make the
final score 50-21. "We had a pretty good effort," said Stassen,
"give Upper Iowa credit, they responded and made more plays then we
did. We played hard, but obviously too many turnovers."
Upper Iowa, now 2-4 on the season wins their first conference game and
are 1-3 in the NSIC, while UMC is winless in four conference tries, and
are 1-4 overall. UMC will be at the University of Mary in
Bismarck, N.D. next Saturday. Mary upset Bemidji State 10-7 this
afternoon. "There is a lot of parity in this conference," said
Stassen, "unfortunately we are on the short end of that."

Jake Freeman leaps over a Peacock defender for a 20 yard touchdown
reception
(Picture by Jeff Chandler of the UMC Athletic Department)

Eric John
tries to find a hole in the Upper Iowa defense - Picture by Chris
Awender

HIBBING
THROWS A SHUTOUT AT CROOKSTON BOY'S SOCCER 2-0

Tim Larson scored on a penalty kick with four minutes to go
in the first half, and it would be all the Hibbing Bluejackets would
need in a 2-0 win over the home standing Crookston Pirates. After
a scoreless first 35 minutes, Larson was battling Mariano Portillo close
to the six yard box, and the official ruled Mariano leaned over Larson
and drew the foul and allowed the Bluejackets the free kick and Larson
made sure and Hibbing led 1-0 at the half.An insurance marker was scored by Hibbing 11 minutes into the
second half, when a cross over from near the corner made it's way in the
front of the net, and Chris Potocnik was able to knock it in on the near
post, as Pirate goalkeeper, Jarrett Butenhoff was at the far post.
"We had quite a few chances today," said Crookston head coach
Dox Cox, "but we were putting everything wide or high. Alex
Navarro came in one on one with the goalie and kicked it wide."
Hibbing who defeated East Grand Forks last night, were substituting a
lot of players, trying to keep everyone fresh, "Which was good for
them," said Cox, "We are having a psychological block on the
offensive side right now. Our players are having a hard time
reacting to not having Luke (Normandin) in the lineup. We have to just
keep trying to get our offense going again." Normandin, who
is one of the leading scorers for the Pirates has been out of the lineup
for a couple weeks with a leg injury and it's not known if he will be
able to return this season. Crookston is now 8-9 on the year and
will be at Bemidji on Monday afternoon at 5:00 PM, which will conclude
their regular season, and the Section 8A playoffs will start on
Thursday. Crookston is 8-9 on the year because Minot had to
forfeit some of their matches this year and the Crookston match was one
of them so the Pirates loss to Minot is now a forfeit win.

The Crookston Pirates captain, Marlee Wheelhouse scored on a
penalty kick with a minute to go in overtime to give the Pirates a 2-1
win over the visiting Hibbing Bluejackets. After a scoreless first half,
the Pirates struck first 11 minutes into the second stanza, when Hollie
Luckow's corner kick was directed in by Tori Rhode and Crookston was on
the board. "That was a huge goal for us, particularly after a
scoreless first half," said Crookston head coach Sarah Reese,
"We were doing all the little things well in the first half,
passing, trapping and making good decisions, but we weren't shooting,
which is what we talked about at halftime. Even if you don't think it's
a good shot, go ahead and put it toward their goal, and we did that with
Tori's goal." Hibbing would get an equalizer with just under three
minutes to go in regulation and the teams headed for overtime. After
playing nine minutes of scoreless extra time, Hibbing was carded for a
hand ball (playing the ball with the hand) and that gave Crookston a
penalty shot, and coach Reese picked Wheelhouse. "Marlee went in
the upper left corner with the shot and beat their goalie," said
Reese. After taking the lead, the Pirates were able to run off the
remaining minute to pick up their fifth win of the season. "It was
a total team effort this afternoon," said Reese, "everyone
contributed to the win, which is how we want to be playing at this time
of year." Crookston will take their 5-10-1 record to East
Grand Forks on Monday. The Green Wave have beaten the Pirates
twice thus far in the season, 2-0 and 1-0. "They are going to be
the number one seed in the north half," said Reese, talking about
East Grand Forks, "and we want to continue to keep improving to get
ready for the playoffs that start Thursday."
JV - Crookston won 2-1

The Crookston Pirate volleyball team played four matches in
about five hours and lost their first three, before beating Fosston two
games to none for 11th place in the Perham Yellowjacket Invitational.
It was a best of three game tournament, with a cap of playing up to 27
points, and you didn't have to win by two, which happened in the first
game for Crookston, losing 27-26 to Hawley, and then the Nuggets won the
match 25-21.
Crookston continued in their pool play against the Bemidji Lumberjacks,
and the Jacks breezed to a 25-14 win in the first game, but Crookston
probably played their best game, taking Bemidji 25-17 in the second game
to force a game three, but Bemidji prevailed 15-8. In the Bemidji match,
the Lumberjacks outstanding player, Courtney Bitter, set a new Minnesota
State volleyball record with her 112th service ace of the season.
Bitter, who transferred from Lake of the Woods, when her mother took the
head volleyball coaching position at Bemidji State, is the cousin of
Crookston Pirate setter, Lindsay Morgan.
Crookston was then paired up with East Grand Forks, who also lost their
two pool games, and the two teams split the first two games, with the
Green Wave winning 15-9 in the third, and sent the Pirates to the
eleventh place game against the Fosston Greyhounds, and Crookston
rallied in the first game to win 25-23 and then had little trouble
winning the match 25-13 in the second game. "We were very
inconsistent on the day," said Crookston head coach Lon Boike,
"We would play well for five minutes and then just as rapidly,
would not play well for five minutes. It was frustrating really."
Crookston's Macy Hanson had a combine 42 attacks/blocks in the four
matches, while Morgan had 32 assists and four service aces herself on
the afternoon. "In the Hawley match we had a chance to win the
first game and didn't," said Boike, "then the same with
Bemidji, we really responded in the second game, but Bemidji went after
us in game three and deserved the win. In the East Grand Forks
match we played like we did in Crookston against them earlier this year,
good at times and then that inconsistency again. After we lost in
the third game to EGF, we were slow coming out against Fosston and
really had to rally to win game one, and after we did that we had little
trouble in the second game. We have to get more consistent and it's like
pulling teeth for us sometimes to score points."
Crookston will host Ada-Borup, who are ranked fifth in the Minnesota
State Class A polls, on Tuesday night.
Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton, ranked #2 in the state won the championship
over the host team Perham.
Bemidji took third place over Roseau
Climax-Fisher beat Hawley for fifth place
Melrose over Underwood for 7th
Thief River Falls beat East Grand Forks for 9th

The
University of Minnesota, Crookston women’s volleyball team hosted the
eighth ranked team in NCAA D-II volleyball, the Southwest Minnesota
State University Mustangs at Lysaker Gymnasium in Crookston. The Golden
Eagles dropped game one 30-22, but came out and won the second game in a
nail biter 31-29. UMC could not hold off the Mustangs firepower and lost
the next two games by the same score of 30-19. SMSU used consistent
attacking and out-killed UMC 65-43 in the match.

Defensively,
UMC played very well at the net out blocking SWMS 14-5 in the match with
Amber Meyer (Fr., MH, Paxton, Neb.) leading the way with five blocks.
The NSIC pre-season player of the year Erin Contons, (Sr. Apple Valley)
led the Mustangs with 16 kills and 23 digs. UMC head Coach Lee
Anderson talking about the match said, "The two 30-19 scores really
isn't indicative on how close the games really were. They were a
lot closer than that. Any time you can take a game from the 8th
ranked team in the nation that isn't bad. We played better tonight
than we did last night and we played better last night than we did the
previous week so we that is good."The
University of Minnesota, Crookston now has a team record of 4-16, and is
2-8 in the NSIC. The Mustangs are now 18-4 on the season, and an
impressive 9-1 in the NSIC. The Golden Eagles will play next against
Northern State at home on October 12. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m.

The UMC Golden Eagles women's soccer team won their second
Northern Sun Conference match, and second in a row, as they shutout
Minnesota State-Moorhead 3-0 in a match in Crookston. Megan
Gibeault, a Golden Eagle freshman from Green Bay, WI., who was second on
the team in goals scored, has taken the scoring lead for the Golden
Eagles, scoring all three goals to lead UMC to their second conference
win. Gibeault scored early in the first half, putting in a pass from
Kelsey Palmer (Fresh-Crookston), and as it turned out, it would be the
only marker UMC would need, but Gibeault wasn't done, as she converted a
corner kick from Kiely Bladow (Sr-Monument, CO.) and the two finished it
off with another goal with a couple minutes left in the contest.
UMC reversed an earlier score, in a 2-1 loss at Moorhead, in a
non-conference game, but with this game a counter in, UMC is now 2-1 in
the Northern Sun Conference and 4-9 overall.
Minnesota State-Moorhead is 6-7 overall and 1-1 in the NSIC. The Golden
Eagles will host Concordia-St. Paul on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM.

The Crookston Pirate girl's swimming team finished 13th in
the University of North Dakota High School Invitational meet today.
Minot, N.D. won the meet with 331 points, Marshall, Mn was second with
280. The Pirates had 36 points.

FRIDAY - OCTOBER 5, 2007

THOMAS
AND HOLTMAN LEAD CROOKSTON TO SHOOTOUT WIN OVER WADENA

The
Crookston Pirate senior running back Josh Thomas ran for 255 yards and
three touchdowns, while junior wide receiver/defensive back, Cody
Holtman caught a touchdown pass, ran a kickoff back for a touchdown and
had two interceptions in the game, as both led the Pirates to a 48-27
win over the visiting Wadena-Deer Creek (WDC) Wolverines.
Crookston started quickly with a short field on their first possession,
and Holtman caught a 10 yard touchdown pass from Ethan Hulst just three
minutes into the game to give the Pirates an early lead 7-0. “That was
something we told our kids,” said Crookston head coach Chris Trostad,
“we knew that Wadena, even with their record, had played teams pretty
tough in the early part of the game, and we wanted to get to them early,
and we did that on the first series.”
After a Holtman interception on the next Wadena series, which was a
diving grab at midfield, gave Crookston the ball in excellent field
position again at the WDC 47 yard line. “that is fun, making the
interception,” said Holtman, “it was being in the right spot and
good timing.” The Crookston offense would respond to the interception
with their best drive of the game, going 47 yards on nine plays, which
took five minutes, when Thomas went in from three yards out to give
Crookston a 14-0 lead. WDC would answer in the form of Matt Stone,
who ran back a kickoff 93 yards to cut the Pirate lead in half 14-7.
Crookston would start their next drive at their own 44 yard line, after
a 34 yard Holtman kickoff return. The Pirates would need only five
plays, with a couple Thomas runs, and the senior finished it off with an
11 yard run with 45 seconds to go in the first quarter and Crookston had
a 21-7 lead. “We told our players that we wanted to score on our first
three possessions in the game, and hold Wadena on their first three
possessions, and other than their kickoff return, I thought we did that
in the first quarter,” said Trostad.
Wadena-Deer Creek used ball control and a couple nice drives that
accounted for points, but also kept the ball away from the potent
Crookston offense. WDC had an 11 play, 72 yard drive with Stone going in
from 11 yards and with 6:15 to go in the first half, the Wolverines were
within 21-14, and had some momentum going, but it was short lived as
Holtman broke their hearts with an 82 yard kickoff return to put the
Pirates right back up at 28-14. “I caught the ball and then had great
blocking with about a 10 yard hole to go through,” said Holtman,
“all I had to do was go through it and was able to go all the way.”
WDC would take the ensuing kickoff and march down the field, only to
have a pass picked off in the end zone by Michael Schoeneberger to
squelch the Wolverine threat. As dominant as Crookston was in the
first quarter, 138 yards offense to 12 for WDC, the Wolverines did the
same in the second quarter, out gaining the Pirates 132 to 39 in total
yards. “We had a lot of missed tackles tonight,” said Trostad, “we
had a number of players with their feet together and not breaking down
and making tackles, which is something we will be working on in
practice.”
Crookston would start the second half, like they did the first half,
using over four minutes of the clock on a 71 yard drive and Hulst
hitting Matt Wavra for a five yard touchdown pass and half way through
the third quarter, Crookston led 35-14. The next possession for
the Pirates was all Thomas, as the speedster found a seam and just blew
by the Wadena secondary on a 61 yard touchdown run, for his third
rushing score of the game. “Taylor Terpstra was playing some fullback
for us tonight,” said Thomas, “and I just followed him and was able
to get open and score, but Terpstra did a good job.”
WDC scored quickly on their next series, as the Wolverine senior
quarterback hit a couple big passes, including a 14 yard scoring strike
to Stone and WDC was keeping around, trailing 41-21 going into the
fourth quarter. The two teams traded touchdown, as Crookston’s
Hulst hooked up for the second time with Wavra, who made a nifty catch
in the end zone on a six yard pass and the Pirates were back up 48-21.
The reserves played the last seven minutes of the game and Wadena
freshmen quarterback, Colter Pettit finished off the scoring with 25
seconds to go on a 16 yard run.
Crookston had near 400 yards total offense, 304 of it by Thomas, who
rushed for 255 yards and caught a pass for 49 yards and was tackled at
the one foot line. “The o-line was amazing tonight,” said Thomas,
“I have to be a little more patient, but I was pretty excited tonight,
because I got the ball a lot, and I just wanted to get up the field and
get the yards, but I still have to be more patient and let things set
up, but it was pretty good tonight."
Crookston improves to 3-3 on the season and will have a key Section 8AAA
game at Roseau on Friday night. The Rams are now 4-2 on the year,
after taking care of Pequot Lakes tonight 37-6. “We are a lot alike,
Roseau and us,” said Trostad, “We both can score some points and
have some pretty good skilled people. It could very well come down to
who will play the best defense.”
Wadena-Deer Creek is now 1-5 on the season.Josh Thomas breaks a tackle on one of his big runs (He
had 255 yards rushing)

The Golden Eagle Women’s Volleyball team kicked off the
Homecoming weekend tonight against the Wildcats of Wayne State College
in a well fought defensive match in Lysaker Gymnasium. The University of
Minnesota, Crookston lost in three sets tonight by scores of 26-30,
16-30, and 27-30. Service errors did not help the Golden Eagles, as the
team committed seven service errors in the first two games and 10
overall on the night. Heather Foreman (Jr., OH, Brandon, Manitoba) led
the Golden Eagles with10 kills, two service aces, and 12 digs. Theresa
Crance (Sr., MH, Timber Lake, S.D.) continued her consistent attacking
with nine kills and a .304 attack percentage. Allison Zajicek (Jr., OH,
Beatrice, Neb.) had a great defensive night with one block solo and four
assisted blocks, in addition to her three kills. Katie Bonine (Fr., OH,
Cottage Grove, Minn.) had nine kills, three service aces and two block
assists in the match. Megan Derouard (Sr., DS/S, Kenora, Ontario) and
Cassie Yates (Jr., S, Buffalo, Minn.) split the duty at setter tonight,
with 20 and 17 assists respectively. For the Wildcats, Emily Schroeder
had 15 kills, two service aces, and four blocks assisted. Jennifer
Hefner also had 15 kills on the night, with two digs, and four blocks
assisted.

Tonight’s loss brings the Golden Eagles to 4-15 on the season
and 2-7 in NSIC play. The Wildcats improve to 12-9 overall and 5-4 in
NSIC play. The Golden Eagles take on the #8 ranked Southwest Minnesota
State University Mustangs tomorrow evening at 5:00 p.m. in Lysaker
Gymnasium.

The Crookston Pirate girl's tennis team, who finished the
regular season with a 12-3 dual mark, were picked as the number one seed
in the North of Section 8A for the Section Team Tournament that starts
on Monday.1. Crookston2. Thief River Falls

3.
East Grand Forks4. Roseau

The North Section 8A Team Tournament will be on Monday,
October 8th at East Grand Forks and Grand Forks sites.
10:00 AM - CROOKSTON will play Roseau at
the EGF Senior High School courts
10:00 AM - TRF vs EGF at the Register Courts
near the Century School Grand Forks12:30 PM or 1:00 PM - the winners play at the Register
Courts(The Register Courts at Century School are located off 17th
Street in Grand Forks. You go on Columbia Road and turn on 17th Street
and go west until you run into it.)The winner of the North will play the winner of the South for
the Section 8A Title on October 16th at 6:30 PM at the Grand Forks
Tennis Center.

The South team tournament will be played at Perham, with Park
Rapids the top seed, followed by Perham and New York Mills.

EAST GRAND FORKS QUICK START TOO MUCH FOR PIRATE BOY' SOCCER

East Grand Forks scored two goals in the first three and a
half minutes of the match, and John Grabanski scored three goals as the
Green Wave defeated the Crookston Pirates 6-1 in a match up of two
Section 8A teams.Crookston had defeated the Green Wave early this season 7-3
in East Grand Forks, but the Green Wave were able to turn it around on
the road. Crookston head coach Don Cox said, "Our first half
was very slow and lethargic and it took us most of it to build up some
steam. We played a much better second half and had half a dozen
good opportunities in front of their net, but just not get enough on it
to put the ball in to the net. We are still smarting from some
injuries that have rocked us back on our heels here at the end of
regular season. Javier and Mariano Portillo are only about 80%
healed and some of the respiratory illnesses we've had are still hanging
around. It would have been nice to have this series of unfortunate
incidents come at the beginning instead of now, but oh well - the kids
that are filling in are playing the best they can - the Pirates are
still hanging in there and we will play out the season with class, just
like we have done all season." Crookston is now 7-9 on the season
and will host Hibbing on Saturday morning at 11:00 AM.

The
Crookston Pirate girls soccer team was looking to win their third match
in a row, but fell short as they lost to Minnewaska Area 3-1 in a
Section 8A match-up at Lincoln Field in Crookston. Minnewaska Area
scored seven minutes into the match to take an early 1-0 lead. The
final thirty three minutes of the first half would be a defensive battle
as neither team would have a high percentage shot the rest of the half.
In the second half Minnewaska Area struck first again as they scored 15
minutes into the half and added another goal 13 minutes later to give
the Lakers a 3-0 lead. Crookston finally found the back of the net
with eight minutes to go when Erika Wheelhouse took a pass from her
sister, Marlee, and snuck it past the Laker goaltender to avoid the
shutout. Pirate coach Sarah Reese talking about the loss said,
"Today we played a good game, we played an aggressive game.
We were just a step off and that made all the difference in the world
and Minnewaska played well. We missed a few key opportunities and
they got a few breaks and that was the difference right there."
Coach Reese thought her team finished the match on a good note, adding,
"In the first 70 minutes our momentum was a little bit less than
what we expect of ourselves. In the last ten minutes we came back
and picked it up and got a goal which was good." The Pirates
drop to 4-10-1 on the year.

Brooke Morris stops the ball and holds off a Laker defender

1st H

2nd H

FINAL

Minnewaska Area

1

2

3

CROOKSTON

0

1

1

Kalie Persson hits the breaks as Marlee Wheelhouse and Tori Rhode look
on

The
Crookston Pirates lost the first game to Red Lake County Central 17-25,
but the Pirates rebounded by winning three games in a row to claim a 3-1
win in a match played in Plummer to improve to 9-3 on the season.
Game one was close for a short period of time, with the Pirates trailing
5-6, but the Mustangs would win eight of the next 10 points to take a
sizeable lead and cruised to the 25-17 lead. “It was pretty
tough at first,” said Crookston setter, Nellie Hanson, “we didn’t
really get it together, as we didn’t have our normal lineup.”
The second game, Hanson would break open a 14-6 lead with five straight
serving points and Crookston would win easily 25-13 to tie it at one
game apiece. “We had our starting lineup back in the second game,”
said Nellie, “Brea (Aamoth) was back after her back injury, and Allie
(Schumacher) was in the lineup too, so really helped to get the starting
six back together.”
The momentum continued in game three, as Hanson again, along with
setting partner Lindsay Morgan were serving well and Crookston jumped
out to a 13-8 lead, but RLCC would close it to 15-17, before the Pirates
Macy Hanson proved to be too much at the net, as she was blasting away
and led Crookston to a 25-16 win in game three.
Red Lake County Central, who needed a win, would take an early 4-1 lead,
but Crookston scored nine points in a row, behind the serving of Morgan
and Nellie Hanson, and the front row play of Macy Hanson and Aamoth and
the blocking of Shelby Folkers, which seemed to frustrate the young
Mustangs and Crookston rolled to a 25-17 win and the match.
“We didn’t start out passing well in the first game,” said
Crookston head coach Lon Boike, “and it shouldn’t matter who the
personnel is in the game, we just didn’t pass well. They
girl’s were disappointed they didn’t play well in the first game and
we put Brea in, and because she hadn’t played for a week, we didn’t
know how she would do, and we knew Allie would be fine when she got in
there, and things started to click pretty well the rest of the night.”
With the win, Crookston is now 9-3 on the season and will be at the
Perham Tournament on Saturday, and in their pool will be Hawley and
Bemidji. They play both of those teams, and then will play two
more after the pool play.
Red Lake County Central is now 15-13 on the season.
JV - Crookston won 2-0
Freshmen - RLCC won 2-1

BEMIDJI
DEFEAT THE CROOKSTON PIRATE GIRL'S TENNIS 5-2When
is only two wins in a loss reason a reason to feel pretty good? When
those two wins come against the Bemidji Lumberjacks, that’s when!!!
The Bemidji Lumberjacks are undefeated this season in one of their best
seasons in Bemidji history and they have been just clobbering the
competition, including a 7-0 whitewash over Alexandria on Saturday. The
Lumberjacks have been so dominate that they beat Crookston 7-0 earlier
this year in a dual, and Bemidji destroyed the field in the Crookston
Pirate Booster Tournament, by winning all four singles and all three
doubles matches. Today, the Pirates and Lumberjacks hooked up
inside at the Grand Forks Tennis Center, and the Pirates were able to
win two matches, albeit in three sets, when Hayley Myrold won at number
two singles in a 10-6 third set tie-breaker, and the number one doubles
team of Alisyn and Rachel Buchmeier won in a 10-5 third set tie-break.
“Hayley played very well today,” said Crookston head coach Mike
Geffre, “the girl she played, Jamie Hoffman is in the same grade as
Hayley, so they’ve not only played each other in high school, but
during summer tournaments as well, and Hayley had not beaten her in
their last seven meetings, so it was a nice win for her. This was
one of the better matches that the Buchmeier twins have played this year
as well, in winning their doubles match. They played very solid
today and it should be a confidence win for them.”
In the other five matches, Bemidji was on their game, winning all in two
sets, “They are a very good team,” said Geffre, “they have no
weaknesses and should do well at State in Class AA. It was a good
way for us to end the regular season and get us ready for the Section
Tournament.”
Crookston should be the number seed in the North Half of the Section 8A
Team Tournament which starts on Monday at East Grand Forks.

Singles

CROOKSTON-2

Bemidji-5

Scores

Winner

#1

Molly Simmons

Nicole Christiansen

6-4, 6-2

BHS

#2

Hayley Myrold

Jamie Hoffman

1-6, 6-1(10-6)

Crox

#3

Andrea Lariviere

Rachel Smith

6-2, 6-0

BHS

#4

Sarah Derosier

Brittany Thompson

6-3, 6-1

BHS

Doubles

#1

Alisyn Buchmeier
Rachel Buchmeier

Kelli Christiansen
Rachel Imsande

7-6(7-5), 2-6(10-5)

Crox

#2

Sarah Cooley
Danielle Persson

Tessa Comstock
Suzann Nordquist

6-2, 6-0

BHS

#3

Brittny Boetcher
Birgetta Martin

Megan Huesby
Cortne Solberg

6-1, 6-0

BHS

PIRATE
SWIMMERS FALL SHORT TO FOSSTON-BAGLEY IN A DUAL

The Crookston Pirates had seven first place and five second
place finishes but Fosston-Bagley would finish strong late in the meet
to defeat Crookston 94-82 in a dual at the Crookston Pool. Ana Koch and
Abbie Anderson each had three first place finishes including the 200
Medley Relay. "The girls had a really great start," said
Crookston head coach Ken Stromberg, "our 200 medley relay had a
first place finish and when they have a good finish it always seems to
give us a good start."The Pirates had a two
point lead after the first event but trailed until the 100 Butterfly
when Abbie Anderson and Anna Mae Tollefson had first and second place
finishes respectively, but Fosston-Bagley would slowly pull away to win
the dual. "Ana (Koch) and Abbie (Anderson) had their normal soild
starts for us but I though Anna Mae Tollefson, Kaytelyn Porter, Sarah
and Kelsey Kaml all brought the team up a level and we couldn't do it
without them." Crookston goes to Grand Forks Saturday morning for
the U-N-D High at 9:00 am.

Abbie Anderson dives in on the final leg of the 200 medley relay

PLACE

PIRATE

EVENT

TIME

1st

Ana Koch, Kelsey Kaml,
Anna Mae Tollefson, Abbie Anderson

200 Medley Relay

2:19.61

1st

Sarah Kaml

Diving

130.10

1st

Abbie Anderson

100 Butterfly

1:19.54

1st

Ana Koch

500 Free

6:25.89

1st

Ana Koch

100 Backstroke

1:17.44

1st

Kelsey Kaml

100 Breaststroke

1:31.47

1st

Abbie Anderson

50 Free

30.46

2nd

Kaytelyn Porter

200 Free

2:38.82

2nd

Kelsey Kaml

200 IM

3:04.09

2nd

Anna Mae Tollefson

100 Butterfly

1:22.34

2nd

Stephanie Genereux, Kelsey Kaml,
Kaytelyn Porter, Abbie Anderson

200 Free Relay

2:10.52

2nd

Anna Mae Tollefson

100 Backstroke

1:22.24

3rd

Stephanie Genereux, Anna Mae
Tollefson,
Kaytelyn Porter, Ana Koch

400 Free Relay

4:52.07

3rd

Kaytelyn Porter

500 Free

7:13.47

3rd

Stephanie Genereux

100 Free

1:11.75

4th

Nicole Plante

200 IM

3:13.47

4th

Morgan Welter, Jasmyne Cardinal,
Nicole Plante, Sarah Kaml

200 Medley Relay

2:47.40

4th

Stephanie Genereux

50 Free

33.18

4th

Jasmyne Cardinal, Nicole Plante,
Morgan Welter, Sarah Kaml

200 Free Relay

2:32.32

5th

Morgan Welter

200 IM

3:16.33

5th

Nicole Plante

100 Freestyle

1:20.23

5th

Sarah Kaml

100 Breaststroke

1:40.80

5th

Jasmyne Cardinal

200 Free

3:10.81

6th

Ashley Mills

200 Free

3:25.32

6th

Ashley Mills

50 Free

41.62

6th

Jasmyne Cardinal

500 Free

8:21.53

6th

Morgan Welter

100 Backstroke

1:30.62

Kaytelyn Porter
takes a quick breath in the 500 freestyle

CONCORDIA-ST.
PAUL SERVES THEIR WAY TO 3-0 WIN OVER UMC

Concordia-St.Paul
came into their match with the UMC Golden Eagle volleyball team ranked
fourth in the nation in the NCAA D-II and showed why as they beat UMC
3-0 in an NSIC conference match. In the match the Golden Bears set
a school three game match record with 15 aces on the evening. The
Golden Bears as a team had a match attack percentage of .456 to UMC’s
.043 attack percentage. Concordia- St. Paul’s Maria Steinhagen led all
attackers with 13 kills (.647 attack percentage). Theresa Crance (Sr.,
MH, Timber Lake, S.D.) led the Golden Eagles with nine kills (.364
attack percentage).
The Golden Eagles are now 4-14 overall on the season and 2-6 in the NSIC.
Concordia- St. Paul improves to 18-2 on the season and 8-1 in conference
play. UMC returns home to Lysaker Gymnasium this weekend for homecoming.
The team hosts Wayne State College on Friday and Southwest Minnesota
State on Saturday.

The Crookston Pirate girl's soccer team came out strong
against Bemidji after having just under a week off. The Pirates struck
first when Erika Wheelhouse scored on a Hollie Luckow assisted to give
the Pirates the first goal just 17 minutes into the game and the Pirates
would take a 1-0 lead into the half. "We came out really strong
against Bemidji and we continued running the 4-3-3 formation for the
second straight game and thought the girls did a great job adjusting to
it once again," said Crookston head coach Sarah Reese. Marlee
Wheelhouse started off the scoring 12 minutes into the second half when
she scored on a Kalie Persson pass to give the Pirates a 2-0 lead.
Marlee would score 16 minutes later on a penalty kick and the Pirates
would go on to win 3-0. Crookston again would avenged another loss from
earlier in the year as Bemidji beat Crookston back on September 6th by a
score of 4-1. "We played a great game today, the girls played with
a great intensity level," said Reese, "Erika (Wheelhouse) who
played a few different positions did a good job and Marlee (Wheelhouse)
and Kalie (Persson) did a great job for us but it was an all around
effort by all the girls to get us the win. We did a great job of
passing, we played aggressive, and the girls did a great job of
controlling the ball. It was a really fun match to watch as it was
played at a high tempo and the girls did everything asked of them."
Kristen Remick made 2 saves for Crookston who is now 4-9-1 on the season
and will host Minnewaska Area Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 pm, while
Bemidji falls to 4-7-2.
JV - Bemidji won 3-1

UMC
MEN'S GOLF FINISHES FIFTH PLACE AT WINONA MEETSt. Cloud State shot ten strokes better than any other team
on the second day of the Winona State meet to take first place. The UMC
Golden Eagles took fifth shooting a 607, 42 strokes behind St. Cloud.
Jake Sanders led the Golden Eagles shooting a 143 which was also eighth
overall. Adam Winans of Upper Iowa was the Top Individual with a 137.

UMC
WOMEN'S GOLF FINISHES NINTH PLACE AT UND MEETNebraska-Omaha shot six strokes better on the second day than
the University of North Dakota as the went on to win the UND meet at
King's Walk Golf Course in Grand Forks. UMC finished ninth 149
strokes behind Nebraska-Omaha, the Golden Eagles were led by Brittany
Poule who shot a 178 which was 47th overall. Anglea Klindtsworth of
Manitoba and Sara Wolfe of Omaha tied for top score with a 153.